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Rob Balducci: “If you're struggling with mental health, try to harness some of the energy you have and focus it toward playing an instrument”
The virtuoso on using the guitar as an outlet for grief, depression and anxiety on his sprawling new solo album, Transcendence
While She Sleeps' Sean Long: “The guitar should enhance your ability to express yourself – it’s just a piece of wood with some electrics in it. We are the real magic here”
The Sheffield metalcore riffmeister dives deep on his striking new neon-yellow-on-black Charvel signature model, which he calls an “incredible manifestation of human capabilities”
Allan Holdsworth talks jaw-dropping solos, the "exquisitely unique" SynthAxe and his love of headless guitars in his final interview
The trailblazing jazz-fusion guitarist passed away just days after taking part in his last-ever interview with Guitar World
Snail Mail's Lindsey Jordan: “I’m a perfectionist – I will rip a song apart until it is done”
Jordan details the making of her sophomore full-length, Valentine, designing custom Fender models, and undergoing vocal cord surgery just days before she was due to tour in support of the record
Bradley Hall: “It's nice that people enjoy my playing as well as my comedy – my goal has always been to have a good mix of both”
One of YouTube's most prolific guitar players shares his formula for success, how he almost burned out recording a metal soundtrack to The Lord of the Rings, and why Disney's Fantasia is his biggest influence
How Gibson unearthed a 1957 Ted McCarty sketch and turned it into a new guitar shape for 2022, the Theodore
Senior Director of Product Development Mat Koehler recounts the guitar equivalent of “discovering King Tut’s tomb”, and reveals what's next for the model – as well as the “30 or 40 years’ worth of ideas” lurking in the Gibson archives
How Jeff Loomis channeled charred earth to design his new Jackson signature 7-string – and why he's afraid of learning theory
The Arch Enemy shredder on creating the “most metal” guitar possible, his creative relationship with co-guitarist Michael Amott and the trio of new records he's currently working on
Mélissa Laveaux talks luthiers, representation and her "Pretty Woman moment" with Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s guitar
Ahead of her upcoming release, Mama Forgot Her Name Was Miracle, the Canadian indie-roots phenom reflects on her career so far, and how Stairway to Heaven inspired her to pick up the guitar again after years apart
The Aggros’ Parris Mayhew: “I can tell a musical story without a singer – I let the instruments tell it instead”
The former Cro-Mags guitarist on his new instrumental venture, the longevity of the band's 1986 album The Age of Quarrel, and the time he swung a guitar around in a music store during tense negotiations with an employee
"A good idea is a good idea no matter when you do it": Eddie Van Halen reveals how Van Halen brought cutting room floor jams back to life for A Different Kind of Truth
In this wide-ranging 2012 interview, EVH discusses the evolution of his onstage solo, working in the studio with Wolfgang, and the Different Kind of Truth song that "flipped" him out
